Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic is processed at Exxon Mobil's chemical recycling plant in Baytown, Texas, in October 2023. (Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty ...

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are ...

A pilot project in Georgia is addressing one of the home insulation industry's most persistent sustainability challenges — the disposal of hard-to-recycle plastic packaging that typically ends up in ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New ...

“The world’s commitment to ending plastic pollution is clear and undeniable,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), when the fifth negotiation session for an ...

Single-use plastic might just be the most insane act of collective self-harm humanity commits every single day. Each year, the United Nations Environment Programme estimates that we discard a ...

The concept of ‘chemical recycling’ is controversial because it’s used to describe many different processes, some of which may be worse for the environment than disposing the plastic waste in a ...

“Recycling is real, and we’re doing it here at Plastic Ingenuity in Madison, Wisconsin.” Those are the words of a dedicated employee at Plastic Ingenuity, where more than thirteen million pounds of ...

When California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed suit against Exxon Mobil and accused the oil giant of misleading the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling, many of the allegations surrounded ...